Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889

Soldier and educator. Hill was a native of York District, S.C. From about 1885 to 1889 he directed the Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College (later Georgia Military College).

Daniel Harvey Hill was a Confederate general who was part of the Confederate headquarters of the Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

Confederate general.

Daniel Harvey Hill (1821-1889) was a U.S. army officer (later Confederate general), who participated in all the major battles of the Mexican War.

Daniel Harvey Hill (1821-1889), soldier and educator, was born in York District, S.C. A United States army officer by way of West Point, he participated in all the major battles of the Mexican War. Hill resigned from the military in 1849 to begin an academic career in mathematics that would last until the outbreak of the Civil War. He joined the Confederate Army and saw action in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, while rising in rank from colonel to lieutenant general. After the war, Hill published a periodical and weekly paper and resumed a career in academia.

Daniel Harvey Hill was born in South Carolina 12 July 1821. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1842 and served in the Mexican War. He was professor of math at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University). Married Isabella Morrison whose sister married Thomas Jonathan Jackson. He was professor of math at Davidson College, and superintendent of the North Carolina Military Institute. Hill served as a major general in the Confederate States Army. After the Civil War, Hill founded periodicals and lived in North Carolina. From 1877 to 1884, he was president of the University of Arkansas and from 1885 to 1889 was president of the Georgia Military College. Hill died 24 September 1889.

Author, professor of mathematics at Washington and Lee, Confederate major-general, and later president of the University of Arkansas and Georgia Military College.

Daniel Harvey Hill (1821-1889) was a United States army officer (later a Confederate general), who participated in the major battles of the Mexican War.

Jay Winston Johns, Jr. was a coal industrialist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who moved to Virginia and became a leader in preserving homes of renowned Virginians. He married Helen Lambert (1881-1964). Johns became blind in the late 1950's.

He and his wife owned "Ash Lawn," Albemarle County, Virginia which had been the home of James Monroe and designed by Thomas Jefferson. Johns was founder of the Lee-Jackson Memorial, Inc., a foundation dedicated to preserving the memory of Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson and the South's part in the Civil War; and a founder of the Virginia Trust for Historic Preservation, an organization whose main purpose was that of purchasing, restoring, and maintaining for the public, homes of renowned men specifically, the Lee-Fendall House in Alexandria, Virginia.

Johns, himself was a strong Democrat and corresponded with and publicly supported all of the prominent Virginia political figures of his time. He was a spirited supporter of the Virginia Military Institute as a member of the Board of Visitors, and as an honorary member of the Alumni Association; a charter member, and later trustee of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; and a member of the Virginia Chapter of the Society of the Cincinnati. He also received an honorary degree from the College of William and Mary in 1967.

Daniel Harvey Hill (1821-1889), soldier and educator, was born in York District, S.C., to Solomon Hill and Nancy Cabeen Hill. He graduated from West Point in 1842. As a United States army officer, he participated in all the major battles of the Mexican War. Hill resigned from the military in 1849 to become professor of mathematics at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University). In 1854, he accepted the chair of the mathematics department at Davidson College, a position he held until 1859 when he resigned to become superintendent of the North Carolina Military Institute in Charlotte, N.C.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Hill joined the Confederate Army as a colonel. He led the First North Carolina in battle at Big Bethel, Va., and later fought in the Peninsular campaign of 1862 and at Second Manassas, South Mountain, and Sharpsburg. During that time, he received several promotions. In early 1863, Major General Hill assumed command of operations against New Bern and Washington before being called to defend Richmond during the Gettysburg campaign. He was promoted to lieutenant general in July 1863 and ordered to the Army of Tennessee. This promotion was short-lived. Following the Confederate victory at Chickamauga, Hill called upon President Jefferson Davis to remove Braxton Bragg from his command on grounds of incompetence, a criticism that resulted in Hill's own dismissal and loss of his recent commission. Hill's service was limited thereafter, though he did command a division in Joseph E. Johnston's small force at Bentonville, N.C., in March 1865.

After the war, Hill settled in Charlotte and began publishing a periodical The Land We Love in 1866 and the weekly paper The Southern Home in 1869. He also authored a mathematics textbook, several religious tracts, and numerous articles relating to the Civil War. Hill resumed his career in academia in 1877 as president of Arkansas Industrial University (later University of Arkansas). He held this position until 1884. From 1885 to 1889, he served at the Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College (later Georgia Military College).

Daniel Harvey Hill died in Charlotte in September 1889.

Adapted from the entry for Daniel Harvey Hill by John G. Barrett in the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988).